With a $230 million deficit, the City of Seattle mulls options for closing the gap
00:19:32
Five new members of Seattle’s City Council said during their campaigns that they would like to audit the city budget for waste and redundancies --before raising or adding new taxes.
But now, as a $230 million city budget deficit looms, the realities of a time-consuming and expensive audit process are leading those new councilmembers to back off the idea. That means they likely have to take a hard look at something they did not want to do: add new revenue through taxes.
Mar 26, 2024
Hear it again: Documenting local hummingbirds
00:08:50
Hear It Again - Soundside Producer Hans Anderson talks to Burke Museum Curator of Birds Alejandro Rico Guevera about the local hummingbird population, in a story that originally aired in January.
Mar 26, 2024
Is Washington state's public records act losing its power?
00:22:19
Public records belong to the people. That was the argument made in 1972 that spurred the Washington Public Records Act into law, opening virtually every government document to the public. But that law — widely considered one of the strongest public records laws in the country — is losing some of its teeth as legislators pile on more exemptions, according to a report recently published by the Washington Coalition for Open Government.
Mar 25, 2024
Could Boeing's leadership shakeup make more room for labor?
00:14:34
Soundside host Libby Denkmann sits down with aviation industry consultant Scott Hamilton to discuss Boeing's latest leadership changes, and what they mean for the future of the company.
Mar 25, 2024
How the 1976 election ushered in the American partisan divide
00:23:05
To understand the presidential race today, you need go back to 1976 – at least that’s the case that Ben Bradford makes. Bradford is the host and creator of Landslide, a new podcast that looks back at the insurgent campaigns of Ronald Reagen and Jimmy Carter and how they shaped the political world we know today.
How sweating manikins can help us prepare for a warming world
00:09:46
Put simply, humans are complicated – and our feedback is subjective. Put a jacket on someone and ask them if it's warm, cold, breezy or stuffy, and you'll get a range of largely unscientific answers. To get quality data – the kind that is valuable for companies – you need a sophisticated tool. A tool that can sweat.
Mar 21, 2024
Should mental health treatment be forced if someone needs care, but refuses it?
00:20:38
A new podcast from KUOW and The Seattle Times sets out to explore why so many people with severe mental illnesses — who make up 7% of the state's population — go untreated in Washington. Episode 2 of Lost Patients focuses on "involuntary commitment," a legal mechanism that allows someone to be forced into medical treatment if they are deemed a danger to themselves, a danger to others, or are gravely disabled.
Mar 20, 2024
What have we learned in the decade since the deadliest landslide in U.S. history?
00:30:43
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the Oso landslide. On March 22nd 2014, a wall of mud and debris rushing 60 miles an hour hit the neighborhood of Steelhead Haven, near the North Fork of the Stillaguamish river along Highway 530. 43 people were killed. It remains the deadliest landslide in US history.
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